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Danial Nietfeld, with Global Systems Laboratory, said the
project was a major undertaking.
“It’s no small task to replace all three of our watch, warning
and advisory systems with one new one but we’re really happy
with this latest version,” said Nietfeld.
It’s built on a flexible software framework designed to allow
for new science, policy, and technological improvements to be
transformed into information that helps people make decisions
about how to respond to protect themselves and their loved ones.
“Using Hazard Services is more intuitive, which allows my
forecasters to issue warnings more rapidly, as well as giving
them the ability to monitor and create multiple warnings
simultaneously,” said Ben Herzog, the NWS Science and Operations
Officer in the St. Louis forecast office.
The new system is getting good reviews. One forecaster in
Pittsburgh said the system cut the time from deciding to issue a
warning to actually issuing a warning from half a minute to 10
seconds.
Meteorologist Darren Leeds with WRSP-TV in Springfield said
Illinois is currently in the heart of tornado season.
“April, May and June are typically our most active period of the
year for tornadoes in the state of Illinois and that is going on
the last 75 years of data,” said Leeds.
Leeds said Illinois has already had 43 tornadoes in 2025, so the
state could easily surpass the monthly average of 57.
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